lynching

lynching

Carmenita Higginbotham, associate professor at the University of Virginia's McIntire Department of Art, will present "Lynching, Politics and the Spectacle of Race: Reginald Marsh circa 1934" at 4:30 p.m. on April 7 at the Palmer Museum of Art.

Five years ago, while researching the Italian-American experience, filmmaker Heather Hartley stumbled onto one of the uglier episodes in American history: the lynching of 11 Italians in New Orleans in March of 1891. Like most Americans, Hartley, assistant professor of communications at Penn State, had never heard of the incident. Intrigued, she resolved to make it the focus of a short film.